Elaine Downey

@edowney03

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    Feb 3

    For a couple with no kids, you’d need to have a combined income of at least €200k, a €100k deposit, and the confidence to take on a €3800 monthly mortgage, for 31 years. That’s not a young professional couple. That’s the 1 per cent.

    €895,000 does not tick a box for many young professionals in this city. The Irish Times repeating its fetishisation of a dysfunctional housing market that it was a cheerleader for during the boom. Surely there’s a line between newspaper & press release
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    9 Dec 2020

    Here's the portrait of Eva McParland's 10 year old sister Ellen. It won her the Zurich Young Portrait Prize 2020. She's 14 years old.

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  3. 1 May 2020

    Our modern parenting is making monsters 

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    4 Apr 2020

    Please retweet so everyone gets the message. Great work Ireland- let’s keep it up

    Last week Ireland adopted tough additional measures designed to limit the spread of . It has been a truly nationwide effort to stop the spread of this virus & to protect the vulnerable. We need to keep it going. We need to even more than we have.
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    4 Apr 2020

    A powerful image- stay home

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    9 Mar 2019

    Why is nobody on the Labour front bench saying this? Why are we having to hear it from Blair?

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    13 Oct 2018

    What's been the best thing you've read, watched or listened to this week?

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    1 Oct 2018

    So I’ve just hit 20k followers! I’ll choose a winner from anyone that RETWEETS THIS TWEET in the next 24hours. This way the prize won’t be going to somebody who isn’t interested, or doesn’t use twitter anymore 😂. So if you want to be entered on the draw, retweet this tweet

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    25 Sep 2018

    This is a regular occurence. Coach parked at the traffic lights on the road at one of the busiest junctions in Waterford at the busiest time of day causing major delays in

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    11 Sep 2018

    OK so I've just found out that green peppers turn yellow then orange then red and they're actually all the same pepper just less ripe and my mind is blown

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    30 Aug 2018

    This ‘I won’t take the pay’ stuff sounds very decent, but it’s actually awful. It demeans politics and public service as something that should be a plaything for the wealthy.

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    10 Aug 2018

    Shocking Reality: After today’s discussion on the sad photograph of 6 children sleeping in a Garda station and our generous welfare system, here is a breakdown of the figures quoted on the show today. To earn over 50k net you world need to gross over 78k. How many earn 78k?

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    31 Jan 2018

    Japanese obesity in 2018: 3.5% American obesity in 1960: 10.7% American obesity in 2018: 38% Think about this for a moment. This = culture. It's not carbs, affluence, or junk food overabundance. Japan eats tons of carbs, has the highest density of vending machines on Earth.

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    19 Jan 2018

    Money-saving health tip: Unless you have a rare immunodeficiency, or HIV, there is no such thing as ‘immune-boosting’ tablets or food. Your immune system is a well-oiled machine that requires no help from that expensive smoothie. Don’t waste your money.

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    3 Jan 2018

    One of the finest lectures of 2017 was this by on the twin threats to a "fine-tuned liberal democracy":

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    10 Dec 2017

    Opinion: If Roy Moore wins, he can thank Al Franken and Jimmy Kimmel among others, writes

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    28 Nov 2017

    Excellent piece by eminent Irish historian Roy Foster of the Irish facts of life for Brexit

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